CHAPTER 13The Leader as Critical Thinking Coach

Business is decision making! Every day, hundreds if not thousands of decisions are being made that will directly impact both the financial performance of the organization and its ability to achieve the future “look and direction” desired by the CEO. Simply put, the success and failure of any organization rests on the quality of the thousands of decisions made and implemented every day, every week, and every month.

As has been observed already, the winning organization of the future will be the one that can out-think the competition. This out-thinking shouldn’t be restricted to the top echelons of management, so the leader must take steps to be a coach. As the famous saying goes, “Give a man a fish ...

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